Another change I made was to only use the salad plates at home, not the dinner plates. Everyone in my house uses them now. I'm even in the process of collecting new, beautiful, handmade salad plates. My DILs have been instructed not to buy dinner plates if they help me with my collection. Eventually the wedding china we use regularly will be disposed of.

That change has had a great impact on how much I eat, and I get full quick. So eating out is not a problem for me, because I mentally divide the meal and only eat as much as I know will make me full. My biggest struggle with that has been making the decision to do it before I decide to eat out, but hypnosis has pretty much solved that. It made me more mindful of my intentions in this area, and regular self-hypnosis reinforces the mindfulness.

Karen